About Me

With one foot firmly planted on the American west coast and the other in the Rocky Mountains, M.R. Hyde celebrates and explores the known and spiritual world through writing on themes of mercy, justice, humility and joy. Her religious writing has been praised for its accessibility and her fiction for its unusual, original, humorous and absorbing nature. M.R. Hyde has written for religious purposes for nearly three decades and writes fiction for the sheer joy of words. M.R. Hyde earned a Master of Arts in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary and a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts from Point Loma Nazarene University.

Quotations on Literature

To the Christian his own temperament and experience, as mere fact, and as merely his, are of no value or importance whatsoever: he will deal with them, if at all, only because they are the medium through which, or the position from which, something universally profitable appeared to him.

He will do it if it happens to be the thing he can do best . . . It is to him an argument not of strength but of weakness that he should respond fully to the vision only 'in his own way'. And always, of every idea and of every method he will ask not 'Is it mine?', but 'Is it good?'

He has no objection to the comedies that merely amuse and tales that merely refresh; for he thinks like Thomas Aquinas . . . We can play as we can eat, to the glory of God.

Reading List

The Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleRogue Lawyer by John GrishamThe Pilot by James Fenimore CooperSomething New by P.G. WodehouseNo Name by Wilkie CollinsThe Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonaldThe Life of St. Macrina by St. Gregory of NyssaThe Wife and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich ChekhovThe Simarillion by J.R.R. TolkienPersusion by Jane AustinArmadale by Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsIvanhoe by Sir Walter ScottThe Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsQuiet: The Power of Introverts In a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan CainThere and Back by George MacDonald Sycamore Row by GrishamThe Children of Oden: The Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum and Willy PaganyRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Racketeer by John GrishamThe Hobbit by J.R.R. TolkienThe Strange and Thrilling Adventures of James Charles Fogarty by Tim ChristianPhantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonaldTill We Have Faces by C.S. LewisTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Litigators by John GrishamLove Among the Chickens: A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm by P.G. WodehouseThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. JacobsThe Professor's House by Willa CatherShadows on the Rock by Willa CatherThe Great Divorce by C.S. LewisBilly Bud by Herman MelvilleThe Confession byJohn GrishamThe Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott CardRed Badge of Courage by Stephen CraneOne of Ours by Willa CatherThe Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Many of my e-books are available at deep discounts March 4-10, 2012 from my favorite independent publisher Smashwords.com.

Canada has officially recognized an e-book reading month. And although I'm not Canadian (I used to live in Montana--so it's like I'm a kissing-cousin) we could all celebrate e-books in March!

Join me, won't you?!

M.R. Hyde

Read an E-Book Month 2012

Wonderful News: March is now Read an E-book Month in Canada!

By virtue of an Order by the 41st Parliament of Canada, First Session, Motion M-293 was passed declaring the month of March Read an E-Book Month.

The Order reads:

That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: (a) recognize that the ePublishing industry has created economic opportunities for entrepreneurs, authors, publishers and e-reader manufacturers; (b) recognize that e-books present significant benefits for seniors and children; (c) recognize that e-books are an environmentally-friendly alternative to books; (d) declare the month of March as "Read an E-book Month"; (e) support the goals and ideals of "Read an E-book Month; and (f) encourage Canadians to observe "Read an E-book Month".

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Yes, it's true. I finally finished Treasure Island! I'm so glad I did. Robert Louis Stevenson just floats my boat. His descriptive powers are great. Despite that fact that I've only been on one island in my life and out on the ocean a half a dozen times, I felt like I was there. All the legends of pirates and sea adventures seem to emerge out of this one.

I am now reading G.K. Chesterton's defense of this author. I guess we all need a little defense once in a while.